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[Meaning] standards.[1]Babrius [writes]: "but [the cock] crowed loudly out of his roosting-perch saying: 'How will you know how much [time] is left until dawn, if you sacrifice me the hour-divider?'"[2]

See also pi 1389.
[1] The neuter plural headword, presumably extracted from somewhere, is a variant of πέτευρα . It is glossed, here and in other lexica, by a word transmitted as a transliteration of the Latin signa; Theodoridis on Photius pi817 expresses approval for Musurus' emendation to τίγνα .
[2] Babrius 124.13-15. The Vatican codex of Babrius reads "if you kill me the hour-prophet" (τὸν ὡρόμαντιν ).